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| ScottScheule Diglot Senior Member United States scheule.blogspot.com Joined 5026 days ago 645 posts - 1176 votes  Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Latin, Hungarian, Biblical Hebrew, Old English, Russian, Swedish, German, Italian, French | Message 1 of 3 26 July 2011 at 5:07pm | IP Logged |
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These are two topics I'm having a lot of trouble Googling. Does anybody know any sources, or even just basic theories, on the origins of inflection in language and grammatical gender?
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| Chung Diglot Senior Member Joined 6954 days ago 4228 posts - 8259 votes 20 sounds Speaks: English*, French Studies: Polish, Slovak, Uzbek, Turkish, Korean, Finnish | Message 2 of 3 27 July 2011 at 8:10pm | IP Logged |
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The following may be steps in the right direction:
Purpose of gender and conjugations Sex, Syntax and Semantics From Grammatical to Natural Gender Grimm vs. Brugmann on gender: Analogies in ancient, medieval and modern linguistics Grammatical gender Do languages ever shift from analytic to synthetic? Where have all the inflections gone? 7 persons have voted this message useful | |
| ScottScheule Diglot Senior Member United States scheule.blogspot.com Joined 5026 days ago 645 posts - 1176 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Latin, Hungarian, Biblical Hebrew, Old English, Russian, Swedish, German, Italian, French | Message 3 of 3 27 July 2011 at 8:47pm | IP Logged |
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Thanks. Not completely satisfying, but as you say, a start.
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